Malignant Neoplasm of Breast Clinical Trial
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A Phase II One-arm Open-label Neoadjuvant Study of Pembrolizumab in Combination With Nab-paclitaxel Followed by Pembrolizumab in Combination With Epirubicin and Cyclophosphamide in Patients With Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Verified date | April 2021 |
Source | Institut fuer Frauengesundheit |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Interventional |
Despite its aggressiveness and high incidence, to date, no targeted therapies exist for the treatment of triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). Emerging evidence suggests a crucial role of tumor immunology on outcome for this entity. Checkpoint inhibitors like pembrolizumab, which target immune cells within the tumor, might therefore have an important impact on therapy response and outcome in these high risk patients. We propose a phase II study exploring pathological complete response and the safety of the combination of pembrolizumab and nab-paclitaxel as well as the combination of pembrolizumab with epirubicin and cyclophosphamide in the neoadjuvant setting for women with early TNBC. After completion of this study an extension will be determined.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 53 |
Est. completion date | January 22, 2021 |
Est. primary completion date | August 27, 2020 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
Gender | Female |
Age group | 18 Years and older |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: 1. Written informed consent prior to beginning of trial specific procedures. 2. Subject must be female and aged = 18 years on day of signing informed consent. 3. ECOG(Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group) 0-1 4. Histologically confirmed, early TNBC determined by core biopsy of breast tumor lesion. ER and PR negativity are defined as = 1% of cells expressing hormonal receptors via IHC (immuno-histochemistry) analysis. HER2(human epidermal growth factor receptor 2) negativity is defined as either of the following by local laboratory assessment: In situ hybridization (ISH) non-amplified (ratio = 2.2), or IHC 0 or IHC 1+. 5. Measurable tumor lesion with a size of = 1 cm assessed by sonography or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) within = 21 days prior to entry. In case of inflammatory disease the extent of inflammation will be measured. 6. Indication for chemotherapy. 7. Multicentric and/or multifocal disease, as well as synchronous bilateral breast cancer, is eligible as long as one measurable lesion meets all inclusion criteria. The investigator has to determine which lesion will be used for tumor evaluation before initiation of treatment. 8. Complete staging work up within 8 weeks prior to entry with no evidence of distant disease, including bilateral mammography, breast ultrasound, chest-X-ray (or chest CT-scan), liver ultrasound (or liver CT-scan or liver MRI) and bone scan. 9. Subjects must provide a core biopsy from tumor lesion at 3 time points (before, after first phase of treatment and at surgery) for central confirmation of TNBC status and biomarker analyses. 10. Adequate organ function, defined as: Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)= 1.5 x10³/µl, Hemoglobin = 10.0 g/dl OR = 6.2 mmol/l, Platelets = 100 x10³/µl, Creatinine = 1.5 x ULN OR GFR = 30 ml/min, Total bilirubin = 1.5 x ULN, AST (SGOT) and ALT (SGPT) = 1.5 x ULN, Alkaline phosphatase = 2.5 x ULN, International normalized ratio (INR) or prothrombin time (PT) = 1.5 x ULN, Activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) = 1.5 x ULN, 11. Female subjects of childbearing potential must have a negative urine pregnancy test within 72 hours prior to study entry and be willing to use an adequate method of contraception for the course of the study through 120 days after the last dose of study medication. Abstinence is acceptable if this is the usual lifestyle and preferred contraception for the subject. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Concurrent participation in a study with an investigational agent/device or within 14 days of study entry. 2. Prior chemotherapy, radiation therapy or small molecule therapy for any reason. 3. Previous malignant disease being disease-free for less than 3 years (except in situ carcinoma of the cervix and basal cell carcinoma of the skin). 4. Pregnancy or lactation. 5. Prior therapy with an anti-PD1, anti-PD L1, anti-PD-L2 agent or with an agent directed to another co-inhibitory T-cell receptor (e.g. CTLA-4, OX-40, CD137). 6. Active infection requiring systemic therapy. 7. History of (non-infectious) pneumonitis that required steroids or current pneumonitis. 8. Active autoimmune disease or other diseases that requires systemic treatment with corticosteroids or immunosuppressive drugs (physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency is allowed). 9. History of primary or acquired immunodeficiency (including allogenic organ transplant). 10. Active or prior documented inflammatory bowel disease (e.g., Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis). 11. Known history of following infections: 1. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) 2. History of acute or chronic Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C 3. Has received a live-virus vaccination within 30 days of planned treatment start. Seasonal flu vaccines that do not contain live virus are permitted 12. Known congestive heart failure >NYHA I (New York Heart Association) and/or coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, previous history of myocardial infarction, uncontrolled or poorly controlled arterial hypertension (e.g. blood pressure >160/90 mmHg under treatment with two or more antihypertensive drugs), rhythm disorders with clinically significant valvular heart disease. 13. Preexisting motor or sensory neuropathy of a severity grade = 2 by NCI CTCAE v4.0. 14. Known, pathogenic BRCA (breast cancer susceptibility gene) mutation. Note: testing is not mandatory for trial participation. 15. Any other condition in opinion of the investigator that would interfere with applied systemic treatment or other trial procedures. |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Germany | Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, HELIOS Hospital Berlin Buch GmbH | Berlin | |
Germany | Department for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Marienhospital Bottrop gGmbH | Bottrop | North Rhine-Westphalia |
Germany | Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Erlangen University Hospital | Erlangen | Bavaria |
Germany | Department of Gynecology, Tübingen University Hospital | Tübingen | Baden-Württemberg |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Institut fuer Frauengesundheit | Celgene Corporation, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. |
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Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Other | Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) | Tumor microenvironment prior to and during study treatment. TILs (stroma and intratumoral) in percent as assessed in Denkert et al. 2015, JCO. | Measured from biomaterial collected at baseline, 12 weeks after treatment initiation and at surgery. | |
Other | Immunohistochemistry | PD1 (Programmed cell death protein 1), PD-L1 (Programmed death-ligand 1), SPARC (Secreted protein acidic and rich in cysteine), Caveolin-1, TIM-3 (T-cell immunoglobulin mucin-3), Lag-3 (Lymphocyte-activation gene 3) will be assessed via immunohistochemistry in percentage of stained cells to total cell count and assesment of immunoreactive score (IRS) for each marker. | Measured from biomaterial collected at baseline, 12 weeks after treatment initiation and at surgery. | |
Other | Tumor Immunogenicity | Tumor immunogenicity characteristic measured via FACS of the following markers (CD45, CD3, CD4, CD8, CD14, CD19, CD25, CD56, CD127, CD197, HLA-DR, CD45RA, Ki67) in percent of positive cells to total cell count. | Measured from biomaterial collected at baseline, 12 weeks after treatment initiation and at surgery. | |
Other | Mutational load | Mutational load assessed by Next Generation Sequencing of Germline- and Tumor-DNA in mutations per megabases | Measured from biomaterial collected at baseline, 12 weeks after treatment initiation and at surgery. | |
Other | Neoepitope Detection | Amount of tumor neoepitopes assessed by Next Generation Sequencing comparing Germline- and Tumor-DNA. Neoepitopes are defined as mutations that lead to aminoacid changes and are found in tumor DNA only. | Measured from biomaterial collected at baseline, 12 weeks after treatment initiation and at surgery. | |
Other | Cell-free RNA (cfRNA) | Expression levels of specific tumor- and immune-related analytes in cfRNA will be measured by qPCR and possibly other methods and analyzed for correlations with subject outcomes. | Measured from biomaterial collected at baseline, 12 weeks after treatment initiation and at surgery. | |
Other | Immune Status | Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells will be collected from whole peripheral blood and sorted into subsets of T cells and myeloid cells by flow cytometry and then subjected to transcriptomic profilling by deep sequencing. | Measured from biomaterial collected at baseline, 12 weeks after treatment initiation and at surgery. | |
Other | Circulation Metabolites | Circulating metabolites of host and bacterial metabolites will be assessed in plasma using a multiplex 43-panel ELISA assay. | Measured from biomaterial collected at baseline, 12 weeks after treatment initiation and at surgery. | |
Other | Microbial burden | Viral, bacterial, fungal, helminth and parasite microbial burden will be assessed by Shotgun Deep Sequencing of cell-free RNA and DNA fragments in plasma. | Measured from biomaterial collected at baseline, 12 weeks after treatment initiation and at surgery. | |
Other | Microbiome | Stool microbiome will be assessed by Shotgun Deep Sequencing and analyzed for correlations with clinical outcome. | Measured from biomaterial collected at baseline, 12 weeks after treatment initiation and at surgery. | |
Other | pCR rate after initiation boost | To compare pCR rate in patients receiving a combination of pembrolizumab with nab-paclitaxel and epirubicin/cyclophosphamide chemotherapy and patients receiving 1 cycle of pembrolizumab monotherapy during an initiation boost followed by a combination of pembrolizumab with nab-paclitaxel and epirubicin/cyclophosphamide chemotherapy | Pathological complete response will be assessed at final surgery for patients who received at least two cycles of Pembrolizumab. The rate will be assessed from 30 days until 120 days after last application of medication. | |
Primary | Pathological Complete Response (pCR) rate | Pathological complete response (pCR) rate, defined as the complete absence of all tumor cells (ypT0/ypN0), absence of invasive tumor (ypT0/is ypN0) and regression grades after study treatment. Pathological complete response is the primary endpoint of this trial and correlates especially well with disease-free survival and overall survival in patients with TNBC. Pathological complete response also serves as a surrogate marker for prognosis in TNBC | Pathological complete response will be assessed at final surgery for patients who received at least two cycles of Pembrolizumab. The rate will be assessed from 30 days until 120 days after last application of medication. | |
Secondary | Number of participants with treatment-related adverse events as assessed by CTCAE v4.0 | The safety endpoints for the study will include rate of AE/SAEs and fatal SAEs, causality and outcome of AE/SAEs, rate of treatment discontinuations and reasons, changes in vital signs, laboratory values etc. Grading of AE/SAEs will be based on NCI CTCAE v4.0. | The adverse events will be assessed from first infusion until 120 days after last application of medication. | |
Secondary | Clinical Response | To evaluate the efficacy of the treatment as measured by clinical response (objective response rate by 30 %) 6 weeks after the start of each sequential chemotherapy (nab-paclitaxel and E/C) and at the time of the surgery | Every 6 weeks from date of first medication administration until the date of first documented progression, surgery or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 120 days after last dose. | |
Secondary | EORTC QLQ-BR23 | To evaluate changes in health related quality of life (QoL) assessments from baseline in all subjects using the EORTC Breast Cancer-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-BR23) | Every two weeks from first administration of trial medication through study completion, up to 120 days after administration of last medication. | |
Secondary | EORTC QLQ-C30 | To evaluate changes in health related quality of life (QoL) assessments from baseline in all subjects using Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30 (EORTC QLQ-C30) | Every two weeks from first administration of trial medication through study completion, up to 120 days after administration of last medication. |
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